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Exhibition business today performs many functions: with the help of exhibitions, an information field is formed, intensification of business communications is provided, jobs are created, and, what is especially important, contributes to the acceleration of innovative processes and the introduction of innovative solutions. The article deals with the development of innovation policy in the field of education and science, modernization of industry. Today, in the development of any business process, it is increasingly...

This article defines the specificity of the concept of В«food security in the regionВ». The authors have analyzed the adequacy of the existing regulatory and legal provision of food security at the national and subnational levels. Based on the analysis were made conclusions about the absence of an unified system of criteria and indicators for assessing the level of food security. The necessity to develop an evaluation system is determined by the needs of managing food security at the regional level. The authors ex...

Since 2007 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index provides the opportunity to compare countries within the travel and tourism competitiveness. This index evaluates a number of areas related to travel and tourism, which may affect its competitiveness. One of the essential factors for travel and tourism competitiveness is health and hygiene. Within health and hygiene pillar, sub-pillars such as Physician density, Access to improved sanitation, Access to improved drinking water, Hospital beds, HIV prevalence, and M...

Introduction: Health literacy is a cognitive and social ability determining the individuals` capability of getting an access to information, comprehending and using the information in a way that promotes and maintains good health. It helps to choose healthy behavior and can influence skills achieved in the childhood. Goal: to identify the level of health literacy in children and adolescents between 12 and 18 years. Methodology: A quantitative survey, a questioning method, a face-to-face dialogue. Data collection u...

The theoretical foundations and the basis of the comparative research are based on empirically substantiated theories and research outcomes in the area of manipulative cover-up techniques in the interaction/ communication of individuals. They are a result of research on the position of evaluations in expressive therapies (especially feedback and self-exploration as part of so-called specific effective factors) and the role-system of the Russian structuralist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (the author of arguably the m...

In recent decades, the world community is objectively forced to admit - humanity is getting fat. It is not fatiguing in a figurative sense, that is, in terms of access to a variety of goods, services and opportunities, but in the literal sense, that is, in terms of a constant increase in the number and proportion of people suffering from overweight. The terrestrial population expands in its composition the representation of fat people, which due to this circumstance more and more drop out of the society. The total...

Introduction: Adverse factors in occupational exposure of healthcare workers are bringing risk and health threats in mental and somatic symptoms of health care workers, including the burnout syndrome. The aim of the paper is to evaluate psychological risk, focusing on the stress and psychological burden of health care workers. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study was based on the form of structured anonymous questionnaires evaluating the amount of psychological burden of healthcare staff, according to the c...

Background: Services create most of employment and value added in modern economies and via delivering key intermediate inputs to other sectors they enhance industrial performance and boost economic growth. The significance of international trade in services is systemically growing together with development of ICT technologies. Although Poland's share in global trade in services is rather small (1.01% in exports and 0.72% in imports in 2016) this sector is important for the Polish economy. In 2016, Poland's service...

Tourism is one of human life field where IT technologies are becoming essential occurrence in the contemporary world. The service of tourism becomes smart because of smart phoneВ’s usage during traveling. On the last decade the usage of smart phones was enhanced with advanced features and the usage of smart phones is going to increase more than 2.8 billion until 2020 year. Thus, it is obvious that changes in the tourism industry in the near future will be related to smartphones due to the potential of these device...

The paper presents the results of evaluation of strategic development plans for cities with more than million population in Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation. Integral ranking of the strategic plans is made by combining the results of accessibility of strategic documents for stakeholders, availability of communication channels and readability of these documents. The studies have shown that that on all three criteria city Samara is the first, followed by Kazan and Perm. City Ufa is on fourth place an...

This article introduces the analysis of the current situation of the state ecological policy implementation on the regional level in Russia. The main goal of the research is the evaluation of the socio-economic conditions of the ecological activity in the subjects of the Volga Federal District. Natural-socio-productive systems are taken as the object of the research. Statistical and index methods are used in the research as well as methodology of assessing the ecological policy by A.A. Kostylev which is based on t...

The article defines the necessity of forming complex production groups and technologically connected chains incorporating different business entities in order to achieve concrete economic results within one administrative territory. The authors propose a hypothesis of positive influence of cluster structures on the economy of the region. In order to assess the economic sustainability of the region and an evaluation system itself which is aimed at identifying priority cluster structures the authors conducted an ana...

The last two decades have been an intensive development of residential development in many Polish cities in areas outside of urbanized downtown areas. Unfortunately, a significant part of new settlements is carried out, more or less consciously, as detached to existing urban structures. New housing complexes, already implemented within administrative boundaries of the city or already in neighboring municipalities, create, suspended, often in open space structures, changing the way existing structures, communicatio...

The theme of the paper is the topic of strategic management and the strategic managerial tools used by the managers of the small and medium-sized enterprises of the construction sector. The approach to the topic is conducted through the own international questionnaire survey of managers from Czech Republic and Austria. Thus, we were able to collect the data about the managerial evaluation of several indicators of strategic management in abovementioned enterprises. While the survey was conducted in the time of ongo...

The sedentarization of the nomadic population was one of the directions of the USSR policy in the North. The transfer to sedentary had been completed in many northern regions. But in Yakutia number of nomadic groups were continued to rise in 1980s. There is an important question – how many of the Indigenous peoples of the North in Yakutia had been keeping nomadic way of life in Socialism period. The task of this study is to make the socio-demographic characteristics of the Evens-nomad in the late Soviet period. ...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological po...

Article is devoted to the history of the one of the first state medical facility in Russia- Naval hospital in Kroonstad (nowadays he 35th Lenin Military Naval Hospital named in in honour of N.?. Semashko). Peter the Great initiated global changes in the state medical care, according to his decree 10 hospitals and 500 infirmaries have begun their work in the largest cities; the military naval hospital in Kronstadt was one of them. This hospital was built in 1717 in Kroonstad by solders of fortress for the fleet nee...

The article studies the higher education reforming period in the Russian Federation (since December 25, 1991 to the present time) and presents the analysis of the Russian Federation legislation in the field of education, which is based on the following documents: Law of the Russian Federation "On education" dated July 10, 1992; Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation "On the enactment procedure of the Law of the Russian Federation "On education" No. 3627-I dated 10 July, 1992; Federal Law No. 125-FZ...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of the exchange rate in shaping the export of Poland and selected European Union countries: Sweden, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Denmark and the Czech Republic in the years 2008-2016. The author presented exchange rate regimes in the analyzed countries and assessed if the choice of applied exchange rate system had a significant impact on the variability of nominal exchange rates. Subsequently, changes in real effective exchange rates (REER) and their impact on export co...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", published in the USSR since August 1942, informed Soviet citizens about the course of the Allied military operations. Covering the events of the week and giving an overview of the British press, the newspaper also reported on Nazi crimes in the occupied territories. The change that occurred in World War II in 1943 enabled correspondents to get more comprehensive and reliable information about camps for prisoners of war and concentration camps and publish reports on the h...

Economic authorities (central bank and government), conducting the monetary and fiscal policy, affect the economy as well as each other. In pursuit of its goal, which is the desired level of inflation (the inflation target), the central bank applies appropriate monetary policy strategies with varying degrees of expansiveness/ restrictiveness measured by the interest rate. In turn, the government striving to achieve the goal which is the desired economic growth also uses strategies with a different degree of expans...

The paper discusses selected results of a telephone in-depth interview (TDI) study conducted among 20 Polish companies employing foreigners. The nature of the study was exploratory and it was aimed at detailing the current knowledge about the help the employers offer to foreign employees and the costs of it for the company. The analysis was made taking into account the labour market segment. Half of the surveyed organizations were respondents who employed foreign employers in jobs from the primary labour market (m...

Rail transport and its reforms are matters of current discussions. Member States of European Union have started to consider importance of rail transport and the necessity to emphasize it, as this matter has been underestimated in the past. As consequence, rail transport has lost its competitiveness to road transport. Due to this fact, there have been several reforms of rail transport on level of the European Union, in order to increase performance and to strengthen position of rail transport to other types of tran...

Communication is a key element in all the interactions of a couple. In addition to conversation and dialogue, the intrinsic laws of real communication reveal similar or opposite personality structures, show reciprocity in some acceptances, decisions, trust in the partnerВ’s capacities, but also dysfunctional interventions, disproportionate expectations and motivations, in certain couples or families. In a couple or a family in its entirety, communication can complicate interaction, due to the communication style d...

For over two decades we work under increasingly changing conditions. These changes are mostly the result of globalization, deregulation of labor markets and increasing competition. Among these changes we should name above all the growth of insecure employment. In the context of downsizing and more temporary or short term contract work, many employees may consider their jobs insecure. According to results of many investigations job insecurity influences negatively attitudes towards the job and the organization, as ...

As the marketization of education continues to be promoted, it is necessary to ask what educational role museums and adult education programs are playing, and to clearly explicate the importance of their existence. Who visits museums? What kind of experiences do museum visitors have, and how do they learn? These are question that both researchers and practitioners must answer. The purpose of this paper is to examine how museum visitors in general respond to the exhibits they saw, and how survivors of the Great Eas...

Intercultural identity of student teachers is defined as an aggregate of intercultural knowledge, communication skills, attitudes and personal features that are necessary for successful activity of teachers in the context of interaction among different cultures. The aforesaid components are implemented at the cognitive, behavioural and affective areas. In this context, the research problem is formulated as a question: what is the level of the intercultural identity of pre-service music teachers and what are the po...

The goal of the paper is to evaluate the effects of budget policy aimed at improving the condition of public finances in selected countries of the euro area. Author focuses on countries that prior to the crisis had budget surpluses and low public debt (Ireland and Spain) but also on France and Germany that fulfilled treaty criterion on budget deficit and were close to fulfilling the public debt criterion. Aftermath of the 2008-2009 crisis in the case of public finances of the analyzed countries were varied in term...

The subject of this paper is an analysis and evaluation of the consequences of the financial and economic crisis in 2008-2009 for the public finances in the euro area members which in 1998 (during the qualification to the common currency area) had not fulfilled the treaty criterion of public debt. Their debt ratio to GDP was close to or surpassed 100%. This pertained to: Belgium, Greece and Italy. The research also covers Portugal as after the introduction of the euro and since the recession of 2001-2003 the count...

Elected by the European Parliament, the European Ombudsman aims to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals in their relations with the institutions, bodies or agencies of the European Union. A similar role is played by the ombudsmen guarding rights and freedoms of man and citizen, who operate at the level of individual EU Member States, including - since 1987 - in Poland. The objective of the study is to analyse and compare competences of the European Ombudsman and the Polish Ombudsman, which these bodies m...

Distinctive prosodic features of spontaneous and read-aloud speech are difficult to determine due to several degrees of spontaneity, individual speaking styles, and a variety of emotional states, registers, and communicative situations. Nevertheless, scientists have been making a number of attempts in pursuit of this goal. The article presents the results of comparative analysis of spontaneous and read-aloud speech, obtained on identical material, characterized by neutral pronunciation style – from the perspecti...

Creating good relations between teacher and their student determines the student's well-being at school. Many Polish researchers tried to identify the relations between students and teachers (?nie?y?ski 1990, Dylak 1995, ?cis?owska 2000, Brzezi?ska and Rycielska 2009, Szempruch 2012). The development of new technologies in recent years has contributed to the trend of moving communication to cyberspace. In this context, there is a positive impact of social networking in teacher contacts with students (Py?alski, 201...

Motor performance as a multidimensional concept cannot be defined and characterized through a single motor ability. Multidimensionality of the structural model of motor abilities was, however, initially formulated for adult population and mechanically transformed for child population. The purpose of the study is to determine a factor structure of motor and somatic indicators in primary school children. A sample of 436 children aged 7 to 10 years, of which were 222 girls and 214 boys, performed physical fitness tes...

The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the needs and consumer demand of citizens of the Republic of Kosovo in relation to the factors affecting it. Parts of the study were 500 citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, of which 64% (n = 320) were females and 36% (n = 180) were males. The analysis of empirical data is done through the SPSS program, where the measurement of the results is done with the techniques like correlation and Anova. From the findings of this study it has resulted that the income ...

A majority of students have the opportunity to be the centre of attention (to present a speech, to read a report, to sing, to conduct, or to play) and to feel emotional strain. The latter touches us all but not in the same way. For some personalities emotional stress helps to mobilise their spiritual power, others change unrecognizably: a person becomes tense, confused, the colour of his/her skin changes, a personВ’s hands start trembling. The profession of the music teacher may also be regarded as a profession of...

For many years, Germany has been distinguished by a large surplus on the current account which has now reached almost 8% of the country's GDP. Since 2016, this surplus is the largest in the world and contributes to longstanding global trade and investment asymmetries as well as serious macroeconomic imbalances within the euro area. The main purpose of this study is to analyse the state of Germany's current account in 2000-2017 in order to identify and systemize the most important factors affecting the current acco...

The effectiveness of scientific research belongs to the categories that are difficult to measure. Its assessment is generally subjective and based on various criteria. In the paper it is assumed that the effectiveness of scientific research is determined by a number of publication as well as the speed of commencing and concluding the doctoral conferment procedure. The effectiveness of scientific research is affected by many factors. The authors assumed that the most important ones is the knowledge of methodologica...

The purpose of this paper is to systematise the factors of functional efficiency of business discourse and to analyse the specificity of a complex interaction of language elements within a text, due to which discourse acquires semantic accretions. The article makes the case that nowadays the function of rhetoric impact is regarded as the leading one for business discourse, alongside other language functions. Therefore, speech functional efficiency implies enhancing the desired rhetoric effect in reflecting extrali...

The major research objective was to analyze the problem of organization of inclusive social space from a perspective of disabled peopleВ’s social activity. Authors examine the problem of social inclusion as interdisciplinary task, whereas social activity of people with disabilities is viewed as activity caused by both internal and external factors. Methodology. This work actualizes formation of disabled peopleВ’s social demands for opportunities corresponding to principles of humanism, social equality, tolerance a...

The aim of the article is to explore real factors of the economic transformation in some Arab countries – exporters of natural resources, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) and the Republic of Sudan, as the concrete examples of limitations, which influence on the potential of development of the transitional economies of the Western Asian and African states. Among the factors of economic development and growth there are not only factors of supply, in the first instance raw materials, capital...

Family relationships are related to the cohesion between family members and their interaction and the ability to solve everyday problems and crisis situations. The family is influenced by internal and external factors that affect relationships between family members. These factors also affect intimate life of partners. The family naturally faces a developmental and situational crisis. These crises are milestones that can impact the future life of the family. In the family which takes care of a child with disabilit...

Objective: The aim of this article is to analyze the factual effectiveness of investments realized with EU funds. The case study of a project implemented in the years 2004 - 2014 in Lower Silesia is analyzed. Methodology: The article analyzes the effectiveness principles included in the feasibility study of a given project, and conducts in-depth studies on actual performance, implying a macroeconomic situation. Using the comparative analysis it has identified deviations, their magnitude and source of origin. Resul...

Evolution of the facture theory in the Russian musical science is discussed in this article. System of views, oriented to study the way how a sound tissue is organized, forms a separate area called facturology (as defined by Y. N. Kholopov). The facture theory in music in its orientations at the stage of formation was similar to separate representations of related art and literature. Works of V. Markova, V. Kandinsky etc. are of some interest in this aspect. Later facturology developed as an independent direction ...

The paper analyses the issues of BratislavaВ’s industrial heritage that are related to urban planning, addressing the inappropriateness of many locations chosen historically for development of industry. The objective is to identify less obvious factors that have impact on optimal development of formerly industrial zones, and explain why consideration of a broader urban structure is crucial for the assessment of any situation occurring within it, including the endeavour for heritage conservation or sustainable re-u...

First habits connected to alcohol drinking young people gain in the family. Misuse of alcohol and other addictive substances in young people is often connected to complex family situations and family problems while drinking model is primarily developed in peer groups. The aim of this study was to examine the connection between young peopleВ’s perception of parental acceptance-rejection, peer pressure and some sociodemographic characteristic (gender, family structure, parent's education, subjective estimation of fa...

In the contemporary society different scholars have emphasized the pluralization processes and variability in family forms (Giddens 1991; Beck, Beck-Gernsheim 2001; Baumann 2000). This trend is known as “individualization”, where individuals and self-realization become primary objective and the relationships are "instrumental" to personal happiness and gratification. In this context the value of family ties becomes considerably weakened: some sociologists wonder if the family is still a resource or rather an o...

This paper interprets the contents of family education, investigated through a historic analysis, written in discussions of annual reports of folk schools. Many authors refer to the period from the middle of the 19th century until 1918 as the “golden age” for their generation. The reports of folk schools dating from that period were analyzed, and in 40 of them, texts were found relating to the field of family education. This paper analyzes the contents of family education with which authors wish to act on rais...

One of the most important characteristics of media communication in the 21st Century is the active participation of media audience members in creating cultural meanings. The scholarly article deals with a particularly important way media audiences actively participate in media culture and its processes – fandom. The authors aim to reflect on ‘the culture of the fans’ and its current understanding in the light of media culture and media studies, drawing attention to related cultural phenomena. Given the scope a...

The article considers the peculiarities of the location of wintering and winter pastures on lower reaches of Syrdarya and their differences from other regions. Wintering places were chosen on river valleys or near lakes, mountain hollows or between sand dunes with enough pasture places and protected from the wind. The size of winter pastures depended on the number of livestock and farm size. The places, where winter houses stood, passed by inheritance. Some Kazakhs used to live in nomad tents in winter. Many winte...

Background: The new content of mathematical education should ensure the achievement of state, social and personal needs and interests of students. Current situation related to the methodological and psycho-pedagogical aspects in-depth studying of mathematics is considered by authors. The rethinking of traditional methods of teaching and searching new techniques to form independent and cognitive activity occurs at the step of transition to the new quality of education. It happens in the process of teaching mathemat...